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Two Sides and Print Power have put their weight behind The Print Show, which runs 13-15 October at the NEC.

Middleton Paper, along with its Vision Paper and Board division, has recruited a number of new staff members, three being former PaperlinX employees.

To mark the 175th anniversary of the Cunard Line, three Cunard Liners, the Queen Mary 2, the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Victoria, sailed up the Mersey River and then performed their own ‘river dance’ to line up in formation. Leading in the ships was the Mersey Ferry wrapped in a modern version of the ‘dazzle’ pattern designed by Sir Peter Blake.

Every year Messe Düsseldorf awards the Drupa Prize to the best doctoral thesis in the Arts Faculty at Heinrich Heine University. This year it has gone to historian and Dr Designate Nina Kleinöder for her dissertation ‘Occupational Health and Safety in the West German Iron and Steel Industry in the 20th Century. Structures, Actors and Intertwining Processes’.

Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions now has a mobile app for comparing its media colour offerings and direct samples ordering.??

Innovative Laminations Corporation’s large sheet metallic substrates have been certified for use with the Color-Logic process.

Mutoh and Grafityp have obtained an Indoor Air Comfort Certificate (IAC) for the Grafityp Ecological non-PVC self-adhesive film (GEF-ES) printed with Mutoh Universal Mild Solvent (UMS) inks.

MTEX Technologies will showcase its ‘Micro Digital Textile Industry’ solutions at the ‘Meet the Manufacturer’ conference and trade show at London’s Tobacco Dock on 3 - 4 June.

Mimaki’s UK and Irish distributor, Hybrid Services, has played host for the second year running to graphic design students from South Cheshire College. The 16-18 year olds were given free run of the company’s showroom and the sign and graphics and industrial products portfolio of Mimaki printers in order to create finished products from their own designs.

Retail, OOH and exhibitions creative displays specialist Clicks has bought a Screen Truepress Jet W3200UV wide-format printer with dual flatbed/roll-to-roll capability to increase capacity and flexibility within its large-format operation. The new printer replaces two flatbed Inca Spyders and an HP L65500 and joins a variety of other small and large-format digital printers.

Roland has added a half-day laminating course, in conjunction with Vivid Laminating Technologies, to its Roland Academy training courses. It has also extended its Better Business Boot Camp offering.

Northampton-based motorsport graphics specialist 3SixtyWraps has wrapped this Ginetta G55 GT racing car competing in the G4 class of the 2015 British GT Championship.

Four more colours have been added to the Supreme Wrapping Film range, bringing the total to 86 - 81 colours and 5 chrome accent films.

Vivid Laminating Technologies has unveiled the Easymount Air wide-format laminator, available in 1400mm, 1600mm and 2100mm widths.